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2013-11-21:
Only
five million people have lost their health care so far because of
ObamaCare. Unfortunately, our workers are included in this. This
staggering number is actually very low compared to what is coming. The
vast number of citizens will not be affected until next year. With
political manipulation and to divide and conquer, Obama and his henchmen
have postponed having it applied to corporations, unions, government,
teachers, police, firefighters and others until after the national
elections next year (2014).

It’s
evident to those that are bilked now that ObamaCare is fraught with
lies, deception and malice. Most of you don’t know how bad it is.
You’ll know next year when the “bell tolls for thee.” You still
have time to save yourself, though it’s too late for us.

“...
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because
I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for me, and there was no one
left to speak for me (Martin Niemöller, Nazi Germany).” Well, I’m
speaking out for you.

You
must defeat these “LIZARDS” next year in the national elections.
LIZARDS (Liberal Inane Zombies and Radicalized Democrats).

Those
calling forObama’s resignation have not thought it through. Do they want
Biden to become president? What’s hungered for is the resignation of
the matched set. Of course they won’t resign. Their egos can’t
contemplate such an honorable deed.Obama will be gone in 2016. Until then, you must minimize the
damage.

There
is no lobby to stand up for the middle-class American citizen. You must
stand up for yourself starting now. I promise all the ink in my barrel
and all the gigabytes in my bandwidth to fight this atrocity for you.

Yes,
I’m fighting mad. It’s not about the moronic website. For those that
disagree with me, don’t take it out on my employees — take it out on
me. My name is Horace Corbin, Publisher.

Is
Our Healthcare Plan Substandard?

We’ve
been asked to explain why we lost our healthcare. The drift of things:
Our employees determine the features of their health care plan knowing
that the cost comes out of their end of the year profit sharing (which
they work hard for and deserve). No one here is of child-bearing age, so
they don’t choose to buy maternity leave or pediatric care. There are
other items. Obamacare requires them to buy extra things that they
don’t need or want. So our group plan is cancelled. They are left with
Obama Quotes for each individual. The cost is much higher and
unaffordable. It appears they will also be taxed on it if the company
helps. Where is that money going? And where is that money to come from?

2013-12-03
Update

*
Obama and his RADs (Radicalized Democrats) invoked the "Nuclear
Option" in the Senate to stifle debate over his nominations to pack
the Supreme Court by voiding the 225-year rule of operation.

*
Obama went to the teleprompter for political purposes to tell the public
he decided that insurers can continue to offer their existing plans for
another year, which is impossible and beyond the legal authority of the
President to arbitrarily change laws. Obama is counter attacking his
critics and is spending more millions of taxpayer dollars to promote
Obamacare.

*
Obama extended the date when the big next wave of Obamacare hits the
nation (for corporations) until just after elections next year.

*
NJ Gov. Chris Christie says Obama should just tell the truth.

*
Insurer NJ Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield says it's not their fault, to
the tens of thousands of customers in the state that are having their
policies cancelled on 12/31/2013.

* There is a new website just activated by the insurance industry, www.gohealth.com, that has been authorized to sell health care due to the abysmal failure of Obamacare. It provides cost and options before you need to provide your personal information and buy it.
The director of the website said he would never provide his personal information on the Obamacare website.
Unfortunately, it is not available in all states due to Federal Banking and Insurance Commission regulations.

*
Obama says the website is working much better now. Critics say the
website is insecure and wide open for hackers to collect personal data
of those that apply. Insurance companies say the Obamacare website is
giving them incorrect forms for applicants and policies are falling
through the cracks. Commentary:"Fixing
the ObamaCare website is like greasing the guillotine."

* As of 12/01/13, approximately 800,000 in New Jersey have lost their
health care policies with little idea of what to do.

* Update 12/10/13: People seeking insurance on the ObamaCare
exchanges are finding the plans limit access to some of the best-ranked
hospitals and cancer centers in the country. Former top health care
adviser for the White House reveals, that's how the program was
designed. Obamacare architect Ezekiel Emanuel claimed Obama did not
mislead. Emanuel added: "If you want to pay more for an insurance
company that covers your doctor, you can do that."

* 12/11/2013: There are 21 ObamaCare US Senators (Dems) up for
re-election in 2014 with more than half of those being vulnerable. To
respond for having your health care being cancelled (or soon to be
cancelled), use your voice at the ballot box and make sure they don't
get reelected.

* 12/14/2013: 2013's "Lie of the Year." Obama's oft-repeated promise that people who liked their insurance could keep under ObamaCare it was a "lie." PolitiFact, a political fact-checking website deemed the claim 2013's "Lie of the Year."
What a mess. Jan 1, hundreds of thousands in NJ will not be able to have found alternate to cancelled plans; millions in the country. Obama fiddles while Rome burns.
The latest deadline delay for the Affordable Care Act could lead to even more enrollment problems and place a bigger burden on insurance companies, experts say.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday it would require insurance companies to accept premium payments for plans that start on Jan. 1 up until Dec. 31-eight days from the already once delayed date of Dec. 23.
"This will kill insurance companies," says Devon Herrick, senior analyst at the National Center for Policy Analysis, of the latest deadline extension. "I don't think insurance companies will be there on New Year's Day figuring out what they owe, who they need to bill and who has legitimate coverage. You can see what a mess this is---I can't imagine insurance companies can solve this in one day, especially when that day is a holiday."

* 12/20/2013: In the spirit of Christmas, further updates are
suspended until next year. Merry
Christmas.

* 01/10/2014: The Obamacare Time Bomb is in limbo at the moment as
the impact of the first wave is unmeasured and confusion abounds. Many
that are impacted by this first wave don't know if they have health care
or not, or if their doctors will treat them should they become ill. The
issues are being ignored by the federal government and the politicians
have gone underground. Obamacare supporters are desperately searching
for issues to distract the public. This coming November will be a
tsunami as the Obamacare Law, however it happens to be decreed and
interpreted, hits the major part of the nation. Employers are working
hard to deal with that which is impending, unfortunately searching for
means to reduce employees such as investing in automation and moving
operations off shore. The U.S. Senate elections in November will
determine the direction and speed of this pendulum.

* 01/10/2014 The Obama administration has cut ties with CGI Federal
for its work as the main contractor on the Obamacare website, a source
familiar with the decision told CNN.

* AFL-CIO... saying that the "highly disruptive" implementation
of ObamaCare will drive up the costs of union-sponsored health plans to
the point that workers and employers are forced to abandon them.

* 01/31/2014: CNN, 'The imperial presidency?'

* 02/10/2014: Obama Administration announces another delay in
ObamaCare employer mandate; by decree? Hoping to delude the public to
forestall their doom for the upcoming Senate election?

* 02/11/2014: Businesses with 50 to 99 employees will be required to
certify to the IRS – under penalty of perjury – that ObamaCare was
not a motivating factor in their staffing decisions.

* 02/25/2014: Re Obamacare: There are about 900,000 uninsured people in New Jersey who are eligible (required?) to sign up but only about 89,000 people had enrolled through early February, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Profound problems with the federal government's design of the health exchange website, healthcare.gov, hobbled enrollment from October through most of November.
NJ Democratic lawmakers (11 total) have offered to help promote the program and use their staffs to walk people through the enrollment process, according to Get Covered America New Jersey Director Justine
Ceserano.

* 03/04/2014 - Obama is preparing a new delay in Obamacare that would
allow insurers to continue offering health plans that do not meet
ObamaCare's minimum coverage requirements. The extension would ease
pressure on Democratic candidates in the midterm elections by avoiding
another wave of health policy cancellations expected this fall; hoping
to minimize Dem losses in the House and stave off defeat in the Senate.

* 03/05/2014 - Obama offers 2-year ObamaCare extension for canceled health plans. Republicans blasted the latest announcement as another sign the health law is faltering and Democrats want political cover. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said the move "reeks of politics." Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell called it a "desperate move to protect vulnerable Democrats in national elections later this year." "By announcing a new delay in requiring that policies meet minimum coverage standards, the administration avoids a new round of health policy cancellations set to hit shortly before the November elections," he said in a statement.

* 03/07/2014 - Jumping Ship - Gary Cohen, the official in charge of the federal ObamaCare exchanges, who oversaw the insurance marketplaces through their troubled rollout, has announced he is resigning at the end of this month.

* 03/13/2014 - Chaos is ramping up. Widespread backlog roils NJ health insurance market. Customers are having trouble getting proof-of-insurance cards on all types of health insurance policies. The implementation of Obamacare has clogged the system for nearly all types of health insurance, causing frustration and delays for consumers, agents and policyholders. Lingering backlogs have left thousands in limbo, unsure of whether they’re covered and unable to reach anyone to find out. Some people who completed applications late last year — before the deadline for coverage to begin on Jan. 1 — are still waiting for insurance cards.

* 03/21/2014 - A newly discovered glitch in the main ObamaCare
website reportedly is giving thousands of people the wrong information
about whether they qualify for premium subsidies. The
Philadelphia Inquirer discovered the glitch while entering
hypothetical incomes into the calculator on HealthCare.gov. The
newspaper found that the calculator is using the wrong year's poverty
guidelines -- a simple mistake that, for months, has resulted in
would-be enrollees getting inaccurate guidance. Because of the
glitch, some people may be initially told they qualify for subsidies
when they don't. Others may be told they don't qualify when they do. It's
unclear how many people have been affected, but the mistake raises the
possibility that thousands are giving up the hunt for insurance after
being told, inaccurately, that they don't qualify for government aid.

* 03/21/2014 - The American Medical Association, which originally
supported the Affordable Care Act, is raising concern about another
obscure aspect of the law which they claim could stick doctors with the
tab for patients who skip out on paying their premiums. The
American Medical Association warned the rule could pose a
"significant financial risk" for doctors and hospitals, and on
Wednesday blasted out guidelines to help members try and avoid those
costs. At issue is a 90-day "grace period" which lets
patients who are not paying their premiums keep coverage for 90 days
before it can be canceled. Under the rule, insurers are responsible
for paying any claims during the first month of that period -- but not
necessarily for any claims during the final 60 days.

* 03/26/2014 - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to explain the
Obama administration's latest decision to extend a key ObamaCare
deadline by saying people just "are not educated on how to use the
Internet."

* 03/27/2014 - Horace Re Obamacare; Got my letter today from Blue
Cross/Blue Shield advising that our current plan does not comply with
Obama Care and will thus be eliminated. Also, we may no longer be
in compliance with "small group plans" because we are too
small a group (3 employees) and can't be related to one another by
marriage. By the way, you are now required to provide pediatric dental
coverage to your employees, even if they have no children. My husband
and I are now thinking about getting divorced and living in sin so that
we can maintain health insurance under the new ACA regulations. Name Withheld
by The Westfield Leader and The SP-F Times

* 06/05/2014 - Pausing to review the ObamCare quagmire over the last
few months, I determine that matters are worse than imagined. Little
known to the public is that the ObamaCare law contains a provision to
pay Healthcare providers for any losses that they may encounter as a
result. In speaking with Congressmen and other officials, it appears
that these payments will amount to $ tens of billions funded by the
taxpayers at the end of this year. Current ObamaCare premiums are being
held artificially low and will explode next year after the November
elections. Attempts to reform healthcare operations such as with tort
reform and opening the market to purchasing policies across state lines
are being smothered.

* 06/05/2014 - Sadly, the Whitehouse continues with calumnious and
for all one knows illegal actions such as with VA hospitals, release of
Taliban criminals, IRS targeting and NSA surveillance of citizens. The
President will be gone in 2016. Meanwhile, damage that is being done
must be minimized. The first step is to defeat those in the Senate this November
that have been cooperating -- hoping that their replacements will
provide better service to the country than what is occurring at the
moment.